Improvement in rustic seats



UNITED STATES PATENT- OEEIoE.

ALBERT Gr. HAWKES, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO D. L. BART- LETTAND H. W. ROBBINS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN RUSTIC SEATS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,802, datedSeptember 12, 1871.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT G. HAWKES, of the city and county ofBaltimore and State of Maryland, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Rustic Settees, of which the following is aspecification:

The object of my invention is to construct a rustic settee of woodenslats and iron end supports, which may be readily taken apart fortransportation and as readily put together for use. It relates to animprovement in the combination of the slats and end supports 5 andconsists in forming wedge-shaped dovetail recesses in the edge of theend supports to receive wed ge-shaped keys secured to the under sides ofthe slats at either end thereof.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through one of the slats of myimproved settee, giving a front elevation of the back of the settee,with two of the slats broken away to expose the recesses in the endsupport. Fig. 2 is an end view of the settee. Fig. 3 is a view of theunder side of one of the slats with keys attached. Fig. 4 is atransverse section through the slat and key in the line 2 z of Fig. 3. r

A A are the end supports of my improved settee. These are made, bypreference, of cast-iron. aa, Fig. 1, are recesses, formed in the upperedges of the end supports. These recesses are dovetailed, as illustratedin Fig. 2 of the drawing, and wedge-shaped, as illustrated in Fig. l,the narrower part of the recess being at the outer side of the support.B B B are wooden slats, to form the seat and back of the settee. b b aremetal- They are secured to the slats with their narrower ends outermost,as shown in Fig. 3. The wedge-shaped dovetailed recesses a a in the endsupports are cut through from side to side of the upper edges thereof,excepting only one on the seat portion thereof and one in the back.'lhese exceptional recesses extend from the inner sides of the endsupports, but a small distance across the same, and lugs c 0, Figs. 1and 2, are cast to projectin a line therewith from the outer edge of thesupport to receive screws, by which the slats B, secured by thesepartial recesses, are fastened, as illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawing.

The similar parts of the settee, viz., the slats and the two endsupports, are made alike, so as to be interchangeable, and all the partsfor a number of settees may be packed and transport ed indiscriminately.

When ready to be put together the two end pieces are selected and theslats quickly secured by inserting their wedge-shaped keys into therecesses of the supports, and, after driving the end supports inwardtoward each other, inserting screws through the offsets or lugs c 0 intothe ends of the two slats B B in the seat and back covering of the same.The settee thus formed is made at a comparatively low cost, is neat,strong, and easily taken apart and put together for transportation.

I claim as my invention .The combination of slats B B, fitted with wedgeshaped dovetail keys I) b, with end supports A A having dovetailed wedgeshaped recesses formed in the upper edges thereof, substantially in themanner and for the purpose herein set forth.

ALBERT G. HAWKES. Witnesses:

W. S. WILKINSON, E. L. BARTLETT.

